Vehicle body



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VEHIGL BODY Filed Jan. 12, 1925 Patented Mer. 5, HES).

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BEBTRAM. Ll". GOLDSMETH, OF NEW YQRK, ANDEMIL KOEB, OF `'lUCKHOE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORS, BY MESNE ASSGNMENTS, THE ENGLSH & MER-SICK COMPANY, OF NEXV HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A. CORPOBATON y(3F CGN:NECTICWJ. f

VEHICLE BODY.

Application filedrrenuary 12, 1925. Serial No. 1,751.`

Our invention relates to vehicle bodies such as the bodies of closed automobiles andr lies for its principal object the production of e body of simple construction. which shell be so constructed es to permit the driver or operator within the vehicle to have i much clearer view before liim and to his side than bese of piano hinge members, one leg of the hinge forming; a side of the windshield fre-Ine while the other leg forms e side of e. door frame.y Vile prefer l(ilse to so construct thelegjs of the hinge of U-members or channels in lone of which the Window pane or sash of the door is slideble while the other forms guide or support for the windshield which may or may not be slideble therein. We thus provide the forward corners of the vehicle with connecting yand supportingV members of smell thickness forming only e, slight obstruction to the line of vision of the driver.

@ther and further objects of theinvention will appear from the accompanying description, the invention consistingin the novel vehicle body and parts hereinafter more particularly described find then specified in the claims.

ln the aicconipenying;- drawings showing n, practical embodiment of the invention:

Fig. l is e front elevation of a portion of a body of e closed automobile.

Fig. 2 is o. similar enlarged view (partly in section) showing; e door removed.

Fig'. 3 is en `enlarged horizontal section on the line SW3 of Figyl. l

Fig. e is en enlznfged horizontal section on the line l-- of Fig. l.

Fig. 5 is vertical cross-section line of 3.

Referring in detail to the several figures of the drawings:

l indicates the mein body portion of the vehicle, 2 the upper wall and 3 the floor or bese thereof. Theforward corner posts of on the the vehicle each comprise :i piano hinge one i leg` e ofWhieh is preferably fastened to the upper wall 2 and to the frame adjacent the floor or base 3 while they other leg 5 comprises one of the side members of a door 6, the' other vertical side member of said' door being .indicated et 7. The legs 4 as Well as the'legs 5 are U-'shziped to forinchannels erich receiving;` a. similarly shaped lining 8 of compressible material such as felt.` The side member 7 of `the door is also provided with fr ll-sheped felt-lined channel 9, seid channels 9 and 5 receiving a Window pane or sash 10 which is vertically slidable therein end which may be ectueted by any suit-` able ineens forming` no part of our invenion. The forward felt-lined channels 4f receive a Window `pane ll comprising the windshield which may be or may not be slidzible therein. r

flint we claim as our invention is l. ln e vehicle body, an upper and lower well, :i front door adjacent the driverof the vehicle end associated with said walls and eoA providcdwith vertical side members one of i whichV is provided with :L lined channel therein, e` piano hinge having` two U-shaped lined legs, a, window slidable in seid channel end one of said legs and a windshield sup- `*ported in the other of saidn legs.

the said windshield; and a. rearwardly-fecing` U-shaped channel-bnr recr-iivingV and guiding' the forward edge of the seid sliding' door-glisse and directly hinged to the seid front eornerosty and forming the front vveiticzrl member of the seid door.

Signed et New York in the county of New York and State of New York this 10th y day' of January, A. D. 1925.

EMIL KonB. BERTRAM J. GOLDSMITH. 

